Mass Communication Studies Research Articles

Stages of Media Studies Development in Western Sociology: Formation of Propaganda Models and Their Influence on Changes in the Public Mass Consciousness

At the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, scientists became interested in the media as a subject of research, and there was also a concrete practical implementation of the technologies of mass media influence in political life. The defining feature of this period was the limitless power of the mass media to influence human behavior through persuasion, and the impetus for such conclusions was given by the successes of the Entente states in the First World War. Also, the targeted influence of the media on the public and the development of the PR system helped not only the American presidents to influence the domestic audience in the USA and beyond, but also the large-scale propaganda influence helped A. Hitler comes to power. At the first stage of the study of mass communications and the theory of propaganda, two scientific directions are distinguished: the Chicago school of pragmatism, represented by American researchers, and the Frankfurt school, which was developed by European scientists. Analysis of their research demonstrated the superiority of one-way communication, and the means of mass-communication influence was the power of persuasion, with the help of which the audience was deprived of critical thinking and turned into passive participants in communication. This laid the foundation for the first theories of propaganda, which were effectively used to achieve foreign policy goals by the then leaders.

Exploring Arab communication research: A systematic review from 2000 to 2021

This exploratory meta-analysis aims to investigate the current trends in Arab communication research by studying a sample of media and communication articles published in Arab academic journals between 2000 and 2021. The results reveal an increase in the number of published articles after 2011, with a more significant surge after 2016. Egyptian journals exhibited the highest publication rate among all journals. Arab researchers predominantly focused on journalism, followed by mass communication and media studies. Most of the articles analysed lacked a theoretical foundation, and quantitative methods and surveys were frequently employed for data analysis while qualitative methods, particularly personal interviews, were less common. Traditional media, such as television and newspapers, were the most discussed media platforms, followed by social media networks such as Facebook. Geographically, African Arab countries, notably Egypt and Algeria, dominated in terms of published articles and discussions related to these countries, surpassing Asian Arabic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

INNOVATIVE APPROACH OF TRANSFORMING SUBJECT OF PHOTOGRAPHY INTO A PRACTICAL, SKILL-BASED TOPIC THAT MEETS NEP 2020 STANDARDS

One of the key topics in the study of mass communication is photography. Its also one of the most sought-after disciplines among students of all academic backgrounds. However, due to the price of a DSLR camera and the academic feasibility of the topic, it is only being widely introduced at a theoretical level. With the implementation of NEP, we now have the opportunity to make the topic practical and skill-based. One should be able to use a DSLR (Digital Single Reflex lens) camera in order to have a thorough comprehension of the topic. Students must practice taking photos using a DSLR camera for this. In this work, the researcher has attempted to provide Innovative proposals and a road map for making photography an academically viable topic based on his experience.

Trubunkaltim.co News Analysis on the Halt of Ladyboy Event in Samarinda

Background. This research aims to analyze and conclude information about Theo Van Leeuwen's exclusion and inclusion strategies in the East Kalimantan Tribune news when stopping the ladyboy event in Samarinda City. Purpose. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Indonesia are vulnerable to discrimination such as inequality in education, employment, health, social assistance, and freedom of expression or public space in society. Tribun Kaltim is a mass media that reported the termination of the ladyboy event in Samarinda. Method. This research method uses critical discourse analysis modeled by Theo Van Leeuwen to find out how one party or group is featured or omitted in the text. The research found 5 exclusion data and 32 inclusion data. Results. The results are in accordance with Theo Van Leeuwen's theory that a certain group or social actor can be eliminated and even marginalized in the text or discourse. The results also reinforce the concept of the hierarchy of media content influence in mass communication studies, which understands how news texts by certain media agencies can be influenced by internal and external factors, such as the background of journalists, media reader segmentation, media organization policies, and external news sources from media organizations. Conclusion. From the research results, it can be concluded that there are 5 exclusion data and 32 inclusion data.

Researcher Responsibility to Diversity and Inclusion in Public Relations and Social Scientific Research: A Call for More Inclusive Research and Researcher Participation

ABSTRACT Public relations researchers make inferential claims about populations based on analysis and evaluation of data they have collected from smaller samples of people. A question that has been raised in the social sciences is how well the populations sampled in conducted studies represent or reflect broader populations. We also ponder, to what extent DEI-related topics are explored in public relations scholarship. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of 1,277 articles published in leading, peer-reviewed journals in public relations or adjacent journals in mass communication, strategic communication, and communication studies known to publish public relations research. We found that scholars are not providing complete demographic data when conducting research involving human participants; samples include significantly more women than are represented in the most current U.S. Census; samples overly rely on White participants; samples include significantly fewer persons of Latin origin than reflected in the most current U.S. census; and DEI-related publications are still proportionally few but are increasing. Based on these findings, we introduce the Researcher Responsibility to Diversity and Inclusion, which provides six guiding principles for journal editors and researchers to advance disciplinary theorizing and research and to make inclusivity a more central aspect of disciplinary theory and research.

Exploration of Translation-Communication Model for Chinese Culture to Go Abroad from the Perspective of Mass Communication: A Case Study of English Version of the Garlic Ballads

Translation has become increasingly significant as the pace of Chinese culture going abroad accelerates, based on Laswell’s five-questions model of communication, with the case study of two English version of the Garlic Ballads translated by Howard Goldblatt, this paper tries to construct translation-communication model so as to explore an effective way for Chinese culture to go abroad from the perspective of mass communication studies.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Interest in Prayer and Spirituality in Poland According to Google Trends Data in the CONTEXT of the Mediatisation of Religion Processes

The research undertaken in this article uses the Google Trends tool to study the degree of interest in prayer and general spirituality during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland and Europe. The authors assumed that for people interested in prayer during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet served as a virtual prayer book. The main research questions addressed the frequency of typed queries, referring not only to the word “prayer” but also to specific types of prayer. In addition, interest in prayer was compared with interest in the word “prophecy” to explore the relationship between religiosity and interest in the supernatural sphere in its broadest sense. The analysis shows that there is distinct recurrence regarding the terms searched, with some of them noticeably intensifying with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings also show that keywords related to prophecies were searched more frequently at significant moments in Polish history (2005—the death of John Paul II, 2010—the plane crash in which the President of Poland died) than in the months of 2020 when the pandemic struck and escalated. At that time, searches related to religion were more frequent. It can also be concluded that the outbreak of the pandemic contributed to an increase in the religious activity of Poles. The article is interdisciplinary in nature, referring primarily to Religion Studies and Mass Media and Communication Studies.

Традиционни комуникационни модели и нови технологии в PR комуникацията

The entry of digitization into the life of modern society has led to global changes in the economic and socio-communicative spheres. The new dynamic information environment requires the application of special communication skills, as well as new forms of social interaction between organizations and target audiences to achieve high levels of engagement and effectiveness in communication. For a better understanding of the transformation in communication, it is necessary to trace different communication models that are used for a thorough study of the communication process in the field of public relations. It is also important to outline the influence of digitalization to define an integrated environment that implies a dialogic approach and a new type of management of communication processes. The purpose of the publication is to make a comparison between the classical approaches to the study of mass communication and the implementation of new technologies in PR communication, which requires the application of new methods of research and analysis of digital communications, as well as new ways of reaching target groups in social platforms.

Paradigmatics of the Modern Mass Communication System in the Model of G. Lasswell

The study examined the transformation of mass communication classical model developed by G. Lasswell: who speaks? who is he talking to? What does he say? on what channel? with what effect? Operationalization of these variables is taking place within main institutionalized communication spheres — journalism, advertising, public relations, as well as in the institutionalized sphere — media communications. The participants of communications in journalism, advertising, public relations and media communications have their own special characteristics. The last three are the most diversified in media communications. The emergence and active development of the virtual public environment in its two varieties — the public sphere proper and the maintenance sphere influenced the composition of the actors of this environment and the implementation and ways of implementing the category of authorship in public communication. We also identify various specific content consumers in mass communications. Main features of social information that form content — initiation, optimization, selectivity and relevance — are implemented in four communication spheres in different ways. In modern system of mass communications, it is possible to define a system of messages created by the actor of communication as a form of a certain communication product — a visual communication product, a communication tool product, a prosumer communication product. One of the most important features of modern communications in digital space is their peer-to-peer nature, and use of mobile technology as the main channel. The study of modern mass communications in their component analysis makes it possible to specify individual and common features of social institutions of journalism, advertising and public relations and reveal the characteristics of institutionalized communication practices — media communications. G. Lasswell's model will allow us to build a correct spatial model of the functioning of a modern mass communications system.

The importance of Unified term in Information And Communication SciencesDescriptive approach

The Paper is about terminology in Information Communication Sciences and it is aims to discuss and analyze the issue of unifying the terms and concepts in media and mass communication studies, given the overwhelming chaos surrounding the translation of the term in the Arab region, due to the different sources translated from them by researchers on the one hand, and the absence of agreement among translators to standardize terminology on the other hand, to Besides, there is no body obligating unification in a comprehensive dictionary, necessitates addressing the concept of the term and its significance in media and Communication sciences, in order to extract the most important translation procedures in terms of concept, content and methodology alike. Therefore, knowing how researchers and translators have followed in terms of agreeing or disagreeing about monotheism is essential. The study yielded substantial results, the most important of which is that the term has a fundamental role in the cultural structure of societies, and this calls for careful examination and review when translating the term from the culture of the Source text to the culture of the new recipient.

A Whole Review of Academic Activities and Emerging Issues of the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication on Media Law and Ethics

A Whole Review of Academic Activities and Emerging Issues of the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication on Media Law and Ethics

Mediatization of academic societies: the case of Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication

Mediatization of academic societies: the case of Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication

A History of the Research of Mediated Culture in the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication

A History of the Research of Mediated Culture in the Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication

The Development of Theoretical Research of Mass Communication Studies and Media Studies

The Development of Theoretical Research of Mass Communication Studies and Media Studies

Satire from a far-away land: psychological distance and satirical news

ABSTRACT Satirical news and its effects on outcomes such as appreciation and persuasion have gained considerable currency as a topic of research in mass communication studies. Through the framework of construal level theory, we investigated whether different levels of spatial distance influence these effects. In a between-subjects experiment, participants in the United Kingdom (UK; n = 282) and New Zealand (NZ; n = 370) read a satirical or non-satirical news text summarizing a study reporting on the negative impact of increased digital device screen time on young children. Depending on condition, the texts referred to entities and locations in either the participant’s own country (spatially close) or a foreign country (spatially distant). Results showed significant main effects of satirical news on audience perceptions, emotions, and attitudes. While there were no significant interactions between article type (satirical vs. regular news) and spatial distance (close vs. distant), our results indicated that satirical news was associated with higher perceptions of spatial distance for both the UK and NZ participants as well as higher perceptions of social distance for the NZ participants. Exploratory indirect-effects analyses found several indirect effects of satirical news through increased perceptions of spatial and social psychological distance on audience emotions, text perceptions, and attitudes. We take these results as initial evidence suggesting spatial and social distance are potential variables to consider in future investigations of satirical news.

Restrictions towards Community Activities (PPKM) to Overcome the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Eyes of STIAMI Students and Lecturers: A Mass Communication Study

To overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian government decided to implement a regulation known as the Restrictions towards Community Activities (PPKM). Since its inception, PPKM has been extended fourteen times. Observing the trend, it is interesting to find out how higher education students and lecturers perceive the regulation after gaining information from varied mass communication channels. Therefore, this research is aimed to identify perceptions regarding PPKM among students and lecturers. It used qualitative research with a phenomenology approach, involving 104 STIAMI students and 26 lecturers based in Jakarta, Bekasi, and Depok. According to the results, more than a half of the students and lecturers found information to be sufficient from mass communication channels and decided to support the program if continued in the future. They are, however, urging the government to conduct significant changes that would ensure the social and economic lives of Indonesian citizens remain well.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF TV-DEPENDENT PERSONALITY. PROBLEM STATEMENT

The article deals with the analysis of the personality in the modern informational world problem. The author based the theoretical analysis of this problem on the specifics of the current stage in psychological studies of mass communication. The author assumes that social constructivism, as a postmodernist approach and the theoretical basis of modern studies in mass communication, considers the way mass communication participants construct their idea of the world and its peculiarities. The concept of the “mosaic-resonance effect” is interpreted as the main feature of the nowadays mass media’s messages. The author analyzes the discourse as an instrument used to examine the construction of one's idea of the world during mass communication. The main characteristics of the two models of mass communication: the discourse model by J.Fiske and the constructivist model by W.Gamson, are reviewed in detail. The empirical study outcomes have shown the perspectives of further studies of the mass media's psychological influence on the peculiarities of the person’s way to construct the image of the world and one’s means of interpreting communicative signals to be prospective. Our empirical study demonstrated that subjects referred to as TV-dependent (those who tend to spend a lot of time watching the TV content) are characterized by non-stable emotions, less considerate in linking and analyzing the details of the given information, its’ non-critical perception. TV-dependent respondents mostly perceive the TV data non-adequately, paying attention to emotionally meaningful pieces of information, and tending to reconstruct their image of the event, so that it might be an illustration or general background of the TV content piece, or the information of the lower levels of semantic structure in terms of A.A.Bodalyov.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF TV-DEPENDENT PERSONALITY. PROBLEM STATEMENT

The article deals with the analysis of the personality in the modern informational world problem. The author based the theoretical analysis of this problem on the specifics of the current stage in psychological studies of mass communication. The author assumes that social constructivism, as a postmodernist approach and the theoretical basis of modern studies in mass communication, considers the way mass communication participants construct their idea of the world and its peculiarities. The concept of the “mosaic-resonance effect” is interpreted as the main feature of the nowadays mass media’s messages. The author analyzes the discourse as an instrument used to examine the construction of one's idea of the world during mass communication. The main characteristics of the two models of mass communication: the discourse model by J.Fiske and the constructivist model by W.Gamson, are reviewed in detail. The empirical study outcomes have shown the perspectives of further studies of the mass media's psychological influence on the peculiarities of the person’s way to construct the image of the world and one’s means of interpreting communicative signals to be prospective. Our empirical study demonstrated that subjects referred to as TV-dependent (those who tend to spend a lot of time watching the TV content) are characterized by non-stable emotions, less considerate in linking and analyzing the details of the given information, its’ non-critical perception. TV-dependent respondents mostly perceive the TV data non-adequately, paying attention to emotionally meaningful pieces of information, and tending to reconstruct their image of the event, so that it might be an illustration or general background of the TV content piece, or the information of the lower levels of semantic structure in terms of A.A.Bodalyov.

Who Are the “Masses” in Mass Communication Research? Exploring Participants’ Demographic Characteristics Between 2000 and 2014

Demographics may influence the results and implications of mass communication research. Yet, there is a dearth of studies exploring the extent to which research in the field reports participants’ demographics and the composition of its study samples. This content analysis takes an identity theory and ecological systems theory approach to examine participants’ demographic characteristics in all mass communication studies conducted in the U.S. and published in six peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2014 (N = 1,278). According to our census, three-fourths of the studies reported gender, two-thirds reported age, two-fifths reported race/ethnicity and one-third reported education. While the reporting of demographics improved during the 15-year period, participants continued to be mostly educated, young, White women. In light of these findings, our theoretical framework contends that many of these studies may paint an incomplete picture of the role media play in the lives of the U.S. users and audiences. Furthermore, reporting of participants’ demographics as well as sample composition differed by research methods and subdisciplines, thus revealing a lack of standard protocols across the discipline. Findings from this study encourage researchers to systematically record, report and analyze participant demographics, as well as to take into account participants’ heterogeneity within these demographic groups.

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